I tried giving Sony my credit card. They obstinately refused, which was probably polite of them considering their whole "passwords in plaintext" debacle.

So I gave Sony my Paypal and bought the pass with it, but by the time it was active their cheap-ass deal on... (Final Fantasy? Yeah, mustabeen 'cuz I bought the disc) fell through. Then I discovered that PSN tech support sucks ass, but they finally refunded my money. Then the next day, having spent two days trying to talk to fucking PSN with no dice, my Paypal reverse went through (Paypal gives not a fuck for Sony).

Sony responded by banning my account.

So then I had to buy fuckin' PSN codes on Amazon, feed them to Sony, get my balance back to zero, to get unbanned.

All because Sony is incapable of processing a credit card with any grace.

Which left a seriously bad taste in my mouth. I mean, I've got a working system now (schlep to Amazon, buy fucking codes, feed them painstakingly into PSN, buy the thing you want) that explicitly prohibits Sony from destroying my bank account... but the whole process was such a debacle that I've had little interest in feeding the fuckers.

I decided I get to Level 40 the hard way before I tried to do any multiplayer. I did some crucible shit for the 48 hours I had a pass and their "matchmaking" had my poor little Level 22 hunter engaged in a 3-way death match with a pair of 400-light Level 40 troubadours. It was mostly them running around shooting me over and over again and even when I got five headshots in a row on the assholes they suffered zero damage.